A deep dive into the Mexican Startup Ecosystem with Marcus Dantus

Marcus Dantus is the CEO and Founder of Startup Mexico, a facility specially designed to host aspiring entrepreneurs, startups, professional services, seed capital funds, university initiatives and corporations. He also founded Mexico.com, Mexico’s first online community and internet portal, as well as several other successful Mexican tech companies. He is also a shark on the show “Shark Tank Mexico”.

On this episode you’ll learn:

Why have Mexican corporates been slow to become a part of the local startup ecosystem through investment and acquisitions?

Are there any unique challenges in building a startup in Mexico?

Marcus has said before that “in Latin America we are very creative but not innovators”, what does he mean by that?